Federico Carnales — Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:46:00 +0000

You're welcome

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fairhousing — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:30:00 +0000

just letting you know it works like a charm that way. thanks a bunch.

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fairhousing — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:13:00 +0000

thanks again

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Federico Carnales — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:25:00 +0000

fairhousing,

I'm not sure of the way you are doing the search on the databases, but say, if you are going through each line and getting different fields based on a delimiter, and you want to match exact strings on a specified field, then the code should be like:

if (lc($text) eq lc($searchstring)) { print "We have found the string \"$searchstring\" in ourpage." }
else { print "Sorry, no matches for \"$searchstring\". }

The lc function returns the lower case version of the string/variable, making the comparison case insensitive.

Regards.

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Malte — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:40:00 +0000

You could make both strings lower case and compare them afterwards.

Later,

Malte

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fairhousing — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:13:00 +0000

i'm having one problem with the code above. it recognizes the following 2 names as the same name "michael" and "michael27". any ideas how to correct this?

thanks in advance

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fairhousing — Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:38:00 +0000

very helpful, thanks

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fairhousing — Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:49:00 +0000

same database i've asked another question about. there's a member search feature. however, if you don't type the member's name in exactly as it is in the database it says they don't exist.

what's the simple code to look for both capital and non-capitol spellings of the same word?

thanks in advance

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Federico Carnales — Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:48:00 +0000

Since robp's answer wasn't very descriptive, I'll expand a bit more.

When you are doing a regexp (regular expression), you can specify many options that tell PERL how should it match. The i option specifies that the search/match should be done in case insensitive, just like the g options specifies to match all occurrencies of a string.

The option must be right after the closing delimiter, in robp's case, the slash.

Here's an example:

if ($text =~ /$searchstring/i) { print "We have found the string \"$searchstring\" in our page." }
else { print "Sorry, no matches for \"$searchstring\". }

Regards,
Federico Carnales

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